Metadata record for Euro-Barometer 34.0: Perceptions of the European Community, and Employment Patterns and Child Rearing, October-November 19909576
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2015-03-03Euro-Barometer 34.0: Perceptions of the European Community, and Employment Patterns and Child Rearing, October-November 1990957610.3886/ICPSR09576.v2Reif, KarlheinzMelich, AnnaPlease see full citation.
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1993-10-11Eurobarometer Survey Series2001-03-272001-03-27 The codebook and SAS and SPSS data definition
statements have been updated to provide labels for East German income
categories for variable D16 INCOME (V302). Also, the codebook is now
available as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.Reif, Karlheinz, and Anna Melich. Euro-Barometer 34.0: Perceptions of the European Community, and Employment Patterns and Child Rearing, October-November 1990. ICPSR09576-v2. Cologne, Germany: Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 2001. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09576.v2attitudeschild rearingcultural perceptionsdomestic responsibilitieseconomic conditionseconomic integrationemploymentEuropean unificationEuropean Unionfamily work relationshipforeign languagesforeign policyjob historylanguage studylife satisfactionparental attitudespolitical affiliationpolitical influencepublic opinionpublic policyquality of lifesocial changesocial problemsvoter preferenceyouthsTPDRC.IICPSR.XIV.C.3.aIDRC.IIIDRC.IIIIDRC.VII
This round of Eurobarometer surveys queried respondents on
standard Eurobarometer measures, such as how satisfied they were with
their present life, whether they attempted to persuade others close to
them to share their views on subjects they held strong opinions about,
whether they discussed political matters, what their country's goals
should be for the next ten to fifteen years, and how they viewed the
need for societal change. Additional questions focused on the
respondents' knowledge of and opinions on the European Community (EC),
including how well-informed they felt about the EC, whether their
country had benefited from being an EC member, and the extent of their
personal interest in EC matters. Another major focus of the surveys
was on how current social and cultural conditions affected the lives
of individuals and households. Respondents were asked to assess
general economic conditions and the current and future financial
situations of their own households, to describe personal interests and
the types of voluntary associations to which they belonged, and to
comment on the prospective establishment of a Single European Market
in 1992, the possible formation of an EC police force for combating
terrorism and drug trafficking, which areas of policy should be
decided by national governments and which by the EC, the rights of
noncitizens in EC countries, the role of the EC in cultural matters,
and the position that the EC should assume in reacting to upheavals in
Central and Eastern Europe and in the Persian Gulf. Other questions
focused on major problems facing European youth, the qualities parents
should encourage in their children, knowledge and use of different
languages in the home, and the importance of foreign languages in
general. A separate section of the survey probed individual employment
patterns, asking respondents to describe their employment histories,
how changes in their family lives affected their working lives, times
of unemployment, reasons for starting work again after a period of
unemployment other than money, and occupation. This section also
probed the role of child-rearing in family employment patterns by
asking respondents to describe their experiences with child care, the
distribution of household duties within the family, and their
attitudes toward raising children in general. An additional set of
questions constituted a test for validation of the proposed variables
for harmonization of demographics in the Eurobarometer. This section
was a joint effort of the Commission of the EC and INRA (International
Research Associates, EUROPE), under the supervision of ESOMAR
(European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research). The Norwegian
Social Science Data Services (NSD) conducted a survey in Norway
independent from, but parallel to, Euro-Barometer 34.0, which was
incorporated into this data collection by ICPSR. Many of the questions
in Eurobarometer 34.0 were also asked in Norway, though some questions
were slightly modified. Respondents in Norway were also queried about
additional issues, including their knowledge of the negotiations on
European economic cooperation, their opinions about possible Norwegian
membership in the EC, and their views concerning the advantages and
disadvantages of Norwegian membership in the EC. As in previous
Eurobarometers, questions on political party preference queried
respondents about which party they felt closest to, how they voted in
their country's last general election, and how they would vote if a
general election were held tomorrow. Additional information was
gathered on family income, number of people residing in the home, size
of locality, home ownership, trade union membership, region of
residence, occupation of the head of household, and the respondent's
age, sex, education, religion, religiosity, subjective social class
standing, socio-professional status, and left-right political
self-placement.
1990Please see geographic coverage.BelgiumDenmarkEuropeFranceGermanyGlobalGreeceIrelandItalyLuxembourgNetherlandsNorwayPortugalSpainUnited KingdomPersons aged 15 and over residing in the 12 member nations
of the European Community: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,
Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the
United Kingdom, as well as in Norway.survey data
Multistage national probability samples. Sampling
information for Norway was not provided.
personal interviews

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.Standardized missing values.Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Data processing for this collection was initially
performed at the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung in
Cologne, Germany. ICPSR incorporated data for Norway and completed the
processing.
There are three versions of the data collection
instrument: an English version, a French version, and a Norwegian
version, which is slightly different from the English and French
questionnaires. Also, variables V497-V541 are not available in the
French data collection instrument.
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